The great source of error in religious matters is that men do not fully and honestly take the Word of God as their rule and standard.

William Cunningham

Finally, all of you should be of one mind.  Sympathize with each other.  Love each other as brothers and sisters.  Be tenderhearted, and keep a humble attitude.  Don’t repay evil for evil.  Don’t retaliate with insults when people insult you.  Instead, pay them back with a blessing.  That is what God has called you to do, and he will grant you his blessing.

1 Peter 3:8-9
The New Living Translation

After the satisfactory discharge of his parish duties, a minister may enjoy five days in a week of uninterrupted leisure for the prosecution of any science.

Thomas Chalmers, when Church of Scotland minister of Kilmany, Fife

I had forgot two magnitudes: I thought not of the littleness of time; I recklessly thought not of the greatness of eternity.

Years later, in a debate in the General Assembly he confessed his error with those earlier words.

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God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason.

Dag Hammarskjöld

The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe.

Proverbs 29:25
The King James Version

Mother Teresa loved to laugh, most often at herself.  She knew the importance of laughter in the midst of suffering.

Jim Towey

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As Satan labours to loosen our faith, so must we labour to fasten it, by thinking on the promises and covenant of God in Christ’s blood.

John Bradford

“For the Lord your God is the God of gods and Lord of lords.  He is the great God, the mighty and awesome God, who shows no partiality and cannot be bribed.  He ensures that orphans and widows receive justice.  He shows love to the foreigners living among you and gives them food and clothing.  So you, too, must show love to foreigners, for you yourselves were once foreigners in the land of Egypt.”

Deuteronomy 10:17-19
The New Living Translation

A holy life is not an ascetic, or gloomy or solitary life, but a life regulated by divine truth and faithful in Christian duty.  It is living above the world while we are still in it.

Tryon Edwards

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My shallow and ebb thoughts are not the compass that my Lord saileth by.  I leave His ways to Himself, for they are far, far, above me.

Samuel Rutherford

But what does it say?  ‘The word is near you, on your lips and in your heart’ (that is, the word of faith that we proclaim); because if you confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.  For one believes with the heart and so is justified, and one confesses with the mouth and so is saved.

Romans 10:8-10
The New Revised Standard Version

Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him.

Benjamin Franklin

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If we rely on the Holy Spirit, we shall find that our prayers become more and more inarticulate; and when they are inarticulate, reverence grows deeper and deeper.

Oswald Chambers

“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’”

Matthew 25:40
The New International Version

God daily asks: Just take one small step toward me and I will meet you there where you are.  No matter how far you have strayed.

Unknown

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The mercy by which God freely delivers, and the truth by which He righteously judges, are equally unsearchable.

Augustine

The Lord reigns, let the earth rejoice; let the many coastlands be glad!

Psalm 97:1
The English Standard Version

Faith is like the little night-light that burns in a sickroom; as long as it is there, the obscurity is not complete, we turn toward it and await the daylight.

Abbe Huvelin

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The main theme of the Bible is the covenant-relationship between God and man.

R. V. G. Tasker

Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.  For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world.  And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever.

1 John 2:15-17
The New King James Version

Without an end or bound
Thy life lives all outspread in light;
Our lives feel Thy life all around,
Making our weakness strong, our darkness bright;
Yet is it neither wilderness nor sea,
But the calm gladness of a full eternity.

F. W. Faber

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To be converted is to transfer our life’s centre of gravity from ourselves to God, to free ourselves from ourselves, to break with our self-sufficient and selfish nature, and to seek our supreme satisfaction not in ourselves but in him.

Christoph Luthardt

Thus says the Lord: “Keep justice, and do righteousness, for soon my salvation will come, and my deliverance be revealed.  Blessed is the man who does this, and the son of man who holds it fast, who keeps the sabbath, not profaning it, and keeps his hand from doing any evil.”

Isaiah 56:1-2
The Revised Standard Version

Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

Elizabeth Ann Seton

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Hurt not your conscience with any known sin.

Samuel Rutherford

By wisdom a house is built, and through understanding it is established; through knowledge its rooms are filled with rare and beautiful treasures.

Proverbs 24:3-4
The New International Version

A little boy playing on the deck of a ship in a mighty storm was asked by a passenger if he wasn’t afraid.  “No, I’m not afraid.  My father is the captain of the ship.”

Rufus M. Jones

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The Shepherd knows what pastures are best for his sheep, and they must not question nor doubt, but trustingly follow Him.  Perhaps He sees that the best pastures for some of us are to be found in the midst of opposition or of earthly trials.  If He leads you there, you may be sure they are green for you, and you will grow and be made strong by feeding there.  Perhaps He sees that the best waters for you to walk beside will be raging waves of trouble and sorrow.  If this should be the case, He will make them still waters for you, and you must go and lie down beside them, and let them have all their blessed influences upon you.

Hannah Whitall Smith

But Jesus said, “They need not go away; you give them something to eat.  They said to him, “We have only five loaves here and two fish.”  And he said, “Bring them here to me.”  Then he ordered the crowds to sit down on the grass, and taking the five loaves and the two fish, he looked up to heaven and said a blessing.  Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples, and the disciples gave them to the crowds.  And they all ate and were satisfied.  And they took up twelve baskets full of the broken pieces left over.  And those who ate were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

Matthew 14:16-21
The English Standard Version

We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.

Robert Leighton

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